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Fighting for basic needs in the fall campaign
Something is happening here. What is the significance of the rise of the Kamala Harris campaign? For the workers, it is a dramatic opportunity not only to resist fascism, but to advance the movements for the basic necessities they need to survive.
Gaza war machine ‘made in USA’
The United States could stop the ongoing Gaza massacre of Palestinians by the Zionist government calling itself “Israel” in 24 hours, but it refuses to do so, even though the majority of Americans demand this.
Reproductive rights: Democracy warriors on the march
Tyranny of the minority, the ruling class strategy that enslaved and impoverished millions of people deemed fit only to serve the powerful, is once again waging an all-out war on women.
Fighting for human needs in the 2024 elections
The deteriorating economic situation for millions of Americans is generating both a rising tide of people fighting for their basic needs and a ruling-class turn toward fascist solutions to crush the resistance.
Stop Cop City: a Climate Catalyst
Cop City is the name people have given to the proposed largest police training facility/mock city in the United States, in Atlanta, Georgia. To build it, the police foundation and their corporate donors will have to destroy 85 acres of the largest urban green space in the country, in a Black working-class neighborhood.
Chicago 2023: New politics arising
Revolutionaries using the electoral arena to advance the battle for basic needs have entered a new era in Chicago. On April 4, 2023 voters...
The fight for reproductive freedom, health care and bodily autonomy demands the fight for democracy
A Trump-appointed judge in Texas is now poised to outlaw medication abortions in all 50 states, a nationwide ban that will impact some 40...
Housing for all: Not one penny for war
By the Executive Committee for the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Nearly a year since the Russian invasion of...
The South leads the nation’s healthcare system to the brink
Your local hospital just closed. It happens behind the scenes, unless it’s in your city, town or neighborhood. The paradox of massive numbers of...
The South leads the nation’s healthcare system to the brink
Your local hospital just closed. It happens behind the scenes, unless it’s in your city, town or neighborhood. The paradox of massive numbers of...
Housing for all: Not one penny for war
By the Executive Committee for the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Nearly a year since the Russian invasion of...
INSIDE Rally! The real choice in this year’s elections
No ballot for the 2022 elections will show “democracy” running against “fascism,” yet that is the choice behind many of the issues and candidacies...
Shooting the Messenger
The public’s health is under attack in America like never before. We have lost well over a million Americans despite being the wealthiest country...
We Demand a New Birth of Freedom in 2022
The 2020 U.S. elections were the most important since the Civil War and Reconstruction era, and the elections in 2022 promise to be even...
Long COVID: the Revolutionary Struggle in the Fight
The fight of those suffering long COVID forms a frontline against the tyranny of the dying capitalist system. According to the advocacy network Long...
Inside: Seeing Through Ruling Class Interests
What is happening in Ukraine is terrible, and 4.5 million refugees from that country is an extraordinary number. But as we watch the ongoing...
Reproductive Justice in the Age of Fascist Advance
In 1857 the Supreme Court decided the infamous case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, ruling that Dred Scott, an enslaved man who had lived...
From the Editors: Government Fails to Protect Public’s Health
Entering calendar year 3 of the pandemic, America’s death toll has reached over one million lives. As state and local demagogues assure people it’s...
We celebrate the life of Al Gladyck
Rally, Comrades!, the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, and the League’s Healthcare committee (where he focused most of his recent work) join...
Reproductive Justice in the Age of Fascist Advance
In 1857 the Supreme Court decided the infamous case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, ruling that Dred Scott, an enslaved man who had lived...
Take the Vaccine to the People
That is the name of a proposed Chicago city ordinance to make Covid vaccines more available to poor and minority communities citywide.
It was introduced...
Government Fails to Protect Public’s Health
Entering calendar year 3 of the pandemic, America’s death toll is nearing one million lives. As the CDC issues suggestions for safe practices, state...
A Vision of Unity and a Future for All
With the remarkable development of human knowledge, it seems impossible that so many could die from Covid-19. The U.S. is edging toward 800,000 deaths...
Una visión de unidad y un futuro para todos
Con el asombroso desarrollo del conocimiento humano, parece imposible que tantos mueran por Covid-19. En EE.UU. para principios de febrero más de 900,000 personas...
The Facebook Controversy and the Fight for a New Society
To fight a pandemic, we must reach everyone in this tightly knit global economy with the best medicines, treatments, and strategies. Before even those...
2022 Elections Pit Corporate Profit vs People’s Needs
America stands on the precipice of fascism, and whether it falls is up to us. The “slow-moving coup” unfolding since the failed insurrection of...
Secure Our Health and Safety, not Corporate Interests
Disgust with the Trump Administration’s feeble defense of American lives during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many of the votes for Joe Biden last...
Inside: Love, Vision, the End of Division
Driven by desperation, nearly 15,000 people gathered under a bridge connecting Del Rio in Texas with Ciudad Acuña in Mexico. Most were originally from...
Defending Democracy
Summer wildfires and hurricanes, new pandemic variants, and the grisly fascist offensive have cast a cloud of doom over American society. These are signs...
From the Editors: Covid-19: Our Children are Counting on Us
We look at the numbers representing the toll of the Pandemic to understand our stark reality and see the possibilities of a better future.
Despite...
Pandemic Recovery Requires Shift in Consciousness
The betrayal of the poor couldn’t be more obvious. The U.S. ruling class has sacrificed more than 750,000 Americans, paying lip service to “essential...
Our Children are Counting on Us
We look at the numbers representing the toll of the Pandemic to better understand our stark reality and how to see the possibilities of...
Inside: Unity and the Struggle to Reconstruct Society
The articles in this issue examine crises in housing, COVID-19, public education, science, democracy, and the basic survival of humanity and nature.
As the political...
New Impulses and the Work of RevolutionariesSecretariat, League of Revolutionaries for a New America
The line between a functioning democracy and its death by strangulation grows thinner day by day.
The people’s movement for basic needs and input into...
La respuesta a la pandemia y la lucha contra el fascismo
Al propagarse la pandemia, la gente de todas partes empezó a exigirles a sus gobiernos que los protegiera del Covid. Persistiendo, obligaron a un...
Pandemic Response and the Fight Against Fascism
As the pandemic began spreading, people all over the world demanded that their governments take action to protect them from it. Eventually, their pressure...
Demanding a Government that Meets Human Needs
The accelerating social revolution is forcing workers to enter the political arena, not only for their survival but also to defend the democracy they...
Our Imagination has Been Triggered (by this Pandemic)
Over 600,000 Americans died, and over 33 million were infected with COVID-19, much of which could have been prevented. Some are still getting sick....
Lessons from the Pandemic: Toward Complete Transformation of U.S. Health Care
Over a year ago, stunned and mask-less shoppers faced empty grocery shelves. The commercialization of human relationships and needs were called into question, as...
Inside: What is Our Country to Become?
In 2021, the question of the direction in which the country is headed remains paramount. What is this country to become? We have choices...
From the Editors: Opioid Crisis, an Addiction to Profit
“I think the answer is paying attention to people’s needs in the first place.” — Lisa Al-Hakim, Harm Reduction Alliance, Seattle, Washington.
Several major lawsuits...
Turning Point in the Fight Against American Fascism
The spring of 2021 marks an inflection point in America’s historic seesaw battle over the future of democracy and freedom. Over 360 pieces of...
Capitalism Can’t Keep Us Safe from Coronavirus
We can all appreciate that vaccines will slow the number of new COVID-19 infections and deaths without ignoring the 14,000 Americans still getting sick...
The Inequality Crisis: Vaccine Distribution and the Need for a New Society
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,...
True Justice, Beyond the Limits of the Past
Every country tells a story about itself. In America, one of the central ideas in our story is that “the unfinished revolution” of America...
Turning Point in the Fight Against American Fascism
The spring of 2021 marks an inflection point in America’s historic seesaw battle over the future of democracy and freedom. Over 360 pieces of...
Defeating COVID-19 with Science and Internationalism
The world’s people hoped that new vaccines for COVID-19 would soon defeat the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the biggest capitalists prioritized amassing ever more wealth,...
El hito de la pandemia y nuestra lucha por vivir bien
Hemos alcanzado el hito anual de la pandemia de coronavirus. El presidente Joe Biden comentó: “Como nación, no podemos aceptar un destino tan cruel....
Pandemic Milestone and Our Struggle to Live Well
We’ve reached the year milestone for the coronavirus pandemic. President Joe Biden remarked, “As a nation, we can’t accept such a cruel fate. While...
Mientras abren las escuelas, ¿qué merecen nuestros hijos?
La batalla campal entre el Sindicato de Maestros de Chicago (CTU) y las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago (CPS) por la reapertura de las escuelas...
As Schools Open, What Do Our Kids Deserve?
The pitched battle between the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) over reopening schools reveals how teachers, their communities, and...
Women in the Forefront of Revolutionary Struggles
As the people continue to face the coronavirus pandemic, women are disproportionately represented among essential workers. Women of color are disproportionately represented within these...
Victory in Georgia and the War for America
Reverend Raphael Warnock, the newly elected African American senator from Georgia, is one of 11 children raised in public housing. Jon Ossoff, who won...
COVID-19 Vaccines and the Attack on Basic Science
As 2021 begins, 58 COVID-19 vaccines are in development, three are in use, and three are approaching FDA approval. In less than one year...
We Can’t Have Human Health Without Environmental Health
The realities of personal and planetary health are bound together. Air and water pollution, fires and floods, current and potential pandemics, all of these...
Juntos, más fuertes: la política de clase de la pandemia
Desde el comienzo de la pandemia, los negros, los indígenas estadounidenses y los latinos han sufrido al menos el doble de tasas de infección...
Stronger Together: The Class Politics of the Pandemic
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Blacks, American Indians and Latinos have suffered at least twice the rates of infection as white Americans, but...
Victory in Georgia in the War for America
Reverend Raphael Warnock, the newly elected African American senator from Georgia, is one of 11 children raised in public housing. His running mate, Jon...
COVID-19 Catastrophe: Our Class versus the Corporate State
The new year begins with reflections on the hard lessons of 2020. Countries such as China, South Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Vietnam, which...
Blaming Us for What They Do: The Truth of the Pandemic
By November 2020, COVID-19 had become the leading cause of death in America, despite being unknown just one year ago. With only four percent...
Our Government Responsible for Spread of Covid-19 Deaths
Among the hundreds of thousands of losses among the elderly to the coronavirus are parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, friends. Losses of family histories,...
New Year Calls for New Thinking
January was named for Janus, the Roman god who always turned one of his faces toward the past and the other one toward the...
Inside: Embracing Transformation for the Future
In the waning days of 2020, Sarah Palin, a demagogue of the ruling class, came to Georgia to speak at a rally on behalf...
Inside: Beyond Survival to Human Liberation
This year we got a concentrated dose of what has long ailed our country — historical systematic racism, anti-government militias bent on violence against...
What Kind of Government do We Need to Survive the Pandemic?
It has been over nine months since the first COVID-19 stay at home orders began in U.S. states. We are going through unprecedented times...
Battle of Ideas: Who Is To Blame for Pandemic?
Today’s Americans follow the news of coronavirus infections and deaths like other generations followed casualty reports during world wars, and the coronavirus pandemic actually...
Why Don’t They Care if We Die from COVID-19?
It seems clear that those with the power to ensure public health do not care if most of us live or die. Election week,...
¿Por qué no les importa si morimos de COVID-19?
Está claro que a los que pueden asegurar la salud pública no les importa un comino si la mayor parte de nosotros vivimos o...
Fighting for An America Worthy of Breonna’s Memory
“Say Her Name” is a phrase that dates back to the 2015 death of activist Sandra Bland in police custody, but for millions of...
Facing Sterilization and Inhumane Detention, Women Fight For a New Society
You see them first through the filmy resolution of the video posted on YouTube, about five or six women, with makeshift masks made of...
Enfrentando la esterilización y las detenciones inhumanas: Las mujeres luchan por una nueva sociedad
La primera vez que se les vio fue en un vídeo que se publicó en YouTube sobre una resolución diáfana y patente: unas cinco...
Do Flint Lives Matter? $600 Million Settlement Says Not So Much
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Governor Gretchen Whitmer poke their chests out, announcing the compensation settlement for the disastrous Flint Water Crisis. While...
Inside: ‘Get Your Knee Off Our Necks’
“Sufferings and Struggles, Hopes and Prospects” reports on life-or-death threats people face. Nearly 14 million children in the United States went hungry in June,...
Sufferings and Struggles, Hopes and Prospects
Sixty-two percent of Americans agree that the U.S. government’s handling of the Coronavirus crisis is going badly. No community is untouched by the devastating...
Poderosa Fuerza insurgente hacia una nueva sociedad
Comenzó como explosión de agonía y justificado coraje por el asesinato policiaco de un desarmado hombre Africano- Americano, George Floyd. Se convirtió en una...
Mighty Force Rising for a New Society
It started as an explosion of agony and righteous anger at the police murder of unarmed African American George Floyd. It became a rebellion...
Something New is in Our Grasp
Millions of Americans and people worldwide are revolted by the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and organizing and speaking out in...
Inside: An Epoch of Social Revolution
The events unfolding in the streets over police brutality and the COVID 19 crisis vividly express the crisis underway in the world. Its roots...
Health Care Crisis: The Future is Up to Us
A society that is governed in such a way that it fails to protect its people from the catastrophic harm of the COVID 19...
Remembering Who We Are in the Heart of the Pandemic
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with...
Something New Is in Our Grasp: Millions Worldwide Decry George Floyd Murder
Millions of Americans and people worldwide are revolted by the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and organizing and speaking out in...
La pandemia: ¡El imperio no tiene ropa!
¿Por qué razón mientras la cantidad de personas desempleadas alcanzaban la cifra de 30 millones, la bolsa de valores iba en aumento? ¿Por qué...
Pandemic: The Empire Has No Clothes
Why is it that, when the numbers of unemployed were soaring past 30 million, the stock market went up? Why was it that, as...
New Ideas Light Our Way Out of Crisis
We call this series “ray of light” because it’s hard to imagine a darker struggle than today’s fight for the most basic needs—food, shelter,...
Visión de la clase obrera: nuestras vidas importan más
El recién pasado 20 de abril Dan Patrick, Vicegobernador de Texas, emitió una declaración de guerra contra nosotros los trabajadores. Patrick le dijo descaradamente...
Working Class Vision: Our Lives Come First
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick shamelessly issued a declaration of class warfare. He told Fox News on April 20, “there are more important things...
Enough with the Excuses about Coronavirus: Solutions for a New Society
To hear the politicians and CEOs, you’d think that the only solution to the catastrophic situation today is setting the corporations freer to gouge...
The Coronavirus and the Necessity of a Communist Vision
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (or COVID-19) has made vivid the need for a society that puts people above private property. Never has...
From the Editors: A Class Perspective on Nationalization
Though the two major parties have argued since late March about the nationalization of healthcare as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, private interests...
Superbugs: The Intersection of Technology, Healthcare and Ecology
The technological revolution is more than smartphones, driverless vehicles, factory robots, and automated harvesters, just as the ecological crisis is more than climate change,...
Epochal Change Brings Forth New Leadership
The country is seeing the beginnings of new revolutionary forces developing, especially in recent years.
Alamance County in North Carolina, with a long history of...
Women Take on Profit-Driven Health Care
The rising motion of working-class women today is not just resisting oppression and exploitation but is on a path to break the chains that...
Inside: A Cooperative Society is the Only Solution to the Demands of Our Class
In this issue of Rally, Comrades! we address the growing movement for basic needs and also how it’s being expressed in the electoral arena. The different...
Inside: New Social Force Can Win a World of Abundance
As the ruling class attempts to impose fascism to maintain the system of private property that is the source of their power and wealth,...
The Fight for Healthcare for All
There have been over 70 unsuccessful attempts to repeal “Obamacare’ – the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – including 2 trips to the US Supreme...
From the Editors: A Practical Solution to Homelessness in America
There is an abundance of housing in America. Millions are homeless in America.
California is the breadbasket of the world; it produces enough food to...
The Rising Movement Today
The leap in the economy, from industrial production to electronic production, is forcing millions of workers out of jobs, destroying the standard of living...
Illuminating the Path to a New America
Editors Note: In this issue of Rally, Comrades! we are publishing the Political Resolution of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, adopted...
Healthcare: From Private to Public
Nowhere is the chaos and insecurity of a society in transition felt more universally than in healthcare. Two distinct classes with opposing interests are...
Inside: Blowing in the Wind
A storm is coming. We can track its approach, but even as we are caught up in its vortex, there is no amount of...
